19/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - Pascalina Napoletano and Claudio Fava (MEPs for Democratici di Sinistra) wrote to the President of the European parliament, Pat Cox, last week asking him to express Parliament's concern at the deaths of illegal immigrants during a shipwreck on the Mediterranean cost of Italy, and to ask the Italian authorities to clarify the circumstances that hindered an effective life-saving operation by the Italian navy.